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Spring 2007
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Sunday - Monday, September 14 -15
Sunday, September 14, 6:00 pm Screening of HIGH SCHOOL Frederick Wiseman, 1968, 75 mins Introduced by Karen Beckman and Timothy Corrigan, Penn Cinema Studies The Bridge Cinema de Lux
Monday, September 15 5:30 pm FREDERICK WISEMAN Shooting and Editing A Documentary Film Introduced by Julie Saecker Schneider, Penn Fine Arts B-1 Meyerson Hall 7:30 pm Screening of TITICUT FOLLIES Frederick Wiseman, 1967, 84 mins Introduced by Frederick Wiseman in person The Bridge Cinema de Lux
This program is made possible through the generous sponsorship and support of the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts, Department of Fine Arts and Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Tuesday, September 16, 5:00 pm LIZA BÉAR Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers Liza Béar is a New York-based writer, filmmaker and activist. In the seventies she co-founded and edited the legendary conceptual art magazine Avalanche. She has taught in the graduate film departments of Columbia and New York University. In 1990 she received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in creative non-fiction, and in 1994, an Edward Albee Writing Fellowship for her short stories. Her new book, Beyond the Frame : Dialogues with World Filmmakers, is a selection of her interviews with filmmakers from 23 countries. She is a contributing editor at Bomb. Blogs: <http://lizabearmakingbook.blogspot.com> and <http://squaringoff.blip.tv>.
This program is made possible through the generous sponsorship and support of the Kelly Writers House and Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Wednesday, September 17, 5:00 pm CHRISTIAN DELAGE Wednesday, September 17, 5:00 pm Screening of NUREMBERG. THE NAZIS FACING THEIR CRIMES Christian Delage, 2007, 90 mins followed by a Q&A with Christian Delage 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall
This program is made possible through the generous sponsorship and support of the Annenberg School of Communications, Law School, Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, Center for Global Communication Studies, German Department, and Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Wednesday, September 24, 12:00 pm Cinema Studies Colloquium Penn English and Cinema Studies On Refractive Cinema, or Films about Films Grad Lounge in Fisher Bennett-Hall Friday, September 26, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Teaching with New Media Symposium This symposium is organized by David B. Weigle Information Commons and curated by Peter Decehrney, Penn English and Cinema Studies. Monday, September 29, 5:00 pm Event with SAST Program and Place:TBA
This program is made possible through the generous sponsorship and support of the South Asia Center and Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Wednesday - Thursday, October 1 - 2 German Experimental Women Filmmakers UTE AURAND - MILENA GIERKE - RENATE SAMI
Films from Three Decades Curated by Karen Beckman in collaboration with the filmmakers
Wednesday, October 1, 6:30 pm Making Apple Juice (Milena Gierke, S8 Film, without sound, color, edited in the camera, 1993, 2 ½ mins) Apples are prepared for making juice by washing and squeezing them. Close-ups create the impression that the apples are moving of their own accord. Toads (Milena Gierke, S8 Film, without sound, colour, edited in the camera, 1997, 6 mins) Images of a stream in southern France: it’s the toads' mating season. Movement on the water surface distorts the toads, sometimes making them unrecognizable, bringing two different levels of perception into the action. OH! The 4 Seasons (Ute Aurand in collaboration with Ulrike Pfeiffer, 16mm, 1988, 20 mins) Aurand and Pfeiffer filmed each other at four famous sites in Europe: walking in a summer dress through the snow in front of the Reichstag in Berlin; spinning a young boy again and again through the air in Red Square in Moscow; climbing on a hot day into the waterfall at the Place de la Concorde in Paris; and, as two angels in London, walking through the night of the City. The film begins with a text by Jonas Mekas about improvisation and is edited in the camera. Wanderings. Film diary 1975-1985 (Renate Sami, 2005, MiniDv, 38 minutes) Several portraits of friends, women and men, the Polish Market on Potsdamer Platz, the Wall, a picnic in the Park, on the road in Italy, Turin in Winter, a poem by Cesare Pavese. The film was originally shot on Super8, was then transmitted to MiniDV and left without sound to be punctuated here and there with some short pieces of music. Slought Foundation
Thursday, October 2, 6:30 pm The Protection Foil (Renate Sami, 16mm, 1983. 8 mins, b/w) This film was produced as part of a project with films against the atomic threat. It consists of one shot with a young man who tries to wrap himself into a foil and a singer who accompanies herself on a children`s bandoneon. When You See A Rose (Renate Sami, 1995, 16mm, 4.5 mins, color) Under the spell of Cathy Berberian`s voice, scraps of melodies and poems in my head, in love with spring and summer`s flowers, I walked through streets and gardens, pastures, fields and forests, and by the end of that summer 1995 I had a little film which ends somewhat melancholically with some chords of Gustav Mahler`s “Traveling Journeyman`s Songs.” The Butterfly in Winter (Ute Aurand in collaboration with Maria Lang, 2006, 30 mins, 16mm) The filmmaker Maria Lang reads out of her diary, which she has been writing since 1991, after her move to the countryside to take care of her mother. Fourteen years later, Ute Aurand began filming Maria's daily nursing of her mother, now 96 years old. Every morning Maria opens the windows, places the mother in the wheelchair, is washing and dressing her, combs and braids her long white hair. It is repeated day after day, but every day is different. Every Hour I, February-April 1991 (Milena Gierke, 1991, color, silent, 6 mins, 30 sec.) “For three months, I filmed a portrait of myself every hour, including my surroundings in the picture. The hours when I was sleeping are shown by the use of black film.” Every Hour I is one of Gierke’s most well known works. Its central theme is the pure cinematic and conceptually conveyed question of the relationship between motion and stillness in relation to the mental and emotional development of each individual. AIDS Walk in Central Park (Milena Gierke, 1995, b&w, silent, 6 mins) “After the participants in the AIDS Walk in Central Park were welcomed by applauding crowds, the human masses thinned out into the expanse of the park grounds. Live music played and people had picnics en masse. I observed the moods of the very diverse group of people who gathered on a sweltering day. As the day progressed, more and more of them began to move to the music, and finally began to dance.” Stranger I (Milena Gierke, 1990, colour, silent, 1 min. 30 sec) “An older man walks slowly down the pavement. He doesn't notice that he’s being filmed. He appears to be from another world, completely in his own thoughts. Suddenly, without any apparent reason, he stops in his tracks. Other pedestrians continue, in their accustomed, hurried manner, past him.” Stranger II (Milena Gierke, 1992, colour, silent, 3 min.) “A rubbish dump in the mountains of southern France. Camera editing results in a suggested but untold story.” Slought Foundation
This program is made possible through the generous sponsorship and support of the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Fund in Cinema Studies, Slought Foundation, History of Art Department, and Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Wednesday, October 15, 12:00 pm Cinema Studies Colloquium Penn Cinema Studies Title:TBA Grad Lounge in Fisher Bennett-Hall Wednesday, October 22, 6:30 pm Between Two Worlds Place: TBA
This program is made possible through the generous sponsorship and support of the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Fund in Cinema Studies, Judith Roth Berkowitz Endowed Lecture in Women's Studies, Alice Paul Center for Women’s Studies, South Asia Studies Department, and South Asia Studies Center and Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Friday - Saturday, October 24 - 25 A Conference Penn Cinema and Media Pioneers II Program: TBA 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall
This conference is made possible through the generous sponsorship and support of the Lorraine Quinn Fund in Cinema Studies, Leslie and Michael Flesch Fund in Cinema Studies, and Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Wednesday, October 29, 12:00 pm Cinema Studies Colloquium Penn English Title:TBA Grad Lounge in Fisher Bennett-Hall Wednesday, November 12, 12:00 pm Cinema Studies Colloquium Penn English Title:TBA 112 Fisher Bennett-Hall Wednesday, November 12, 5:00 pm MANTHIA DIAWARA Program: TBA 401 Fisher Bennett-Hall
This event is made possible through the generous sponsorship and support of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia and Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Thursday, November 13, 5:00 pm A Symposium The Affair on Screen (about the Dreyfus affair) Program: TBA Sixth floor, Van Pelt Library
This symposiums is made possible through the generous sponsorship and support of .... and Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Wednesday, November 19, 12:00 pm Cinema Studies Colloquium University College London Visualizing industrial citizenship; or, Henry Ford makes movies 112 Fisher Bennett-Hall Wednesday, December 3, 12:00 pm Cinema Studies Colloquium Penn Cinema Studies Title:TBA 112 Fisher Bennett-Hall |
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